CCE DAIRY EDUCATORS

E16: Managing Lameness on Farm with Dr. Gerard Cramer

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, Cornell PRO-DAIRY, and Dr. Kaitlyn Lutz, CCE NWNY Dairy, Livestock, & Field Crops Team, interview Dr. Gerard Cramer about lameness. Dr. Cramer is a Professor of Dairy Production Medicine with the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. We discuss Dr. Cramer’s thoughts on current rates of lameness in the US dairy industry, risk factors for lameness, what farms are doing well, and technology and the future of lameness detection.

Show notes:

https://z.umn.edu/dairycowfootdoc

https://z.umn.edu/footdocyoutube

https://kinderground.org/our-efforts/kinder-hoof-care/

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For almost 30 years, Keith Keberle has been the farm manager at Oakfield Corners Dairy in Oakfield, NY, where they milk 2800 cows in a 72-stall GEA DairyProQ robotic rotary parlor. In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Regional Dairy Specialist Margaret Quaassdorff of the CCE NWNY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team, and Cornell PRO-DAIRY's Dairy Animal Welfare Specialist, Lindsay Ferlito, interview Keith Keberle about his experience transitioning to a robotic rotary, and his insights in managing employees and cows in a higher tech system. We also discuss dairy data and the mindset involved in keeping the wheel turning.

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Show Notes:

Oakfield Corners Dairy: http://oakfieldcornersdairy.com/

Inside look: Robotic milking at Oakfield Corners Dairy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3ryjLu6wI&t=47s

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Margaret Quaassdorff of the CCE NWNY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team interviews Dr. Julio Giordano, Cornell University Professor of Dairy Cattle Biology and Management and Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture, about his research group’s progress on the “MyCow$ tool” to help dairy farmers make better management decisions using individual cow and herd level profitability calculations.

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Show Notes:

YouTube Link to: New tools and data for improving individual cow and herd profitability webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPCwiZ-ofo0

Cornell CIDA: https://digitalagriculture.cornell.edu/

New York Farm Viability Institute: https://nyfvi.org/

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Margaret Quaassdorff of the CCE NWNY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team and Betsy Hicks of the CCE SCNY Dairy and Field Crops Team interview John Winchell, Territory Sales Rep with Alltech, on all things related to the Corn Silage crop in 2024. The progress of the corn crop across NYS as well as strategies for staging corn harvest to maximize quality in different scenarios is discussed. John also shares his thoughts on this year’s crop in regards to molds and yeasts.

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Dr. Laporta is an assistant professor of lactation physiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After completing her PhD, Dr. Laporta spent five years on faculty at the University of Florida, so she is no stranger to heat stress! Over her career, so has studied the effect of heat stress on many animal classes. In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, CCE Regional Dairy Specialists Daniela Gonzalez Carranza, BVS, MPS, and Kaitlyn Lutz, DVM, interview Dr. Laporta on the impact of heat stress on dairy calf health and growth. To give suggestions for future topics please click this link:

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In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, Cornell PRO-DAIRY’s Dairy Animal Welfare Specialist and Dr. Kaitlyn Lutz, Dairy Management Specialist with CCE Northwest NY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Team, interview Katie Ballard, Research Director at the William H. Miner Institute. They discuss the impacts of heat stress in dairy cows in NY, the takeaways from Katie’s research in this area, and heat abatement strategies to consider on our region’s dairy farms.

Resources:

"The Effectiveness of Heat Stress Abatement on Lactating Dairy Cows’ Performance, Behavior & Health in NNY: Year 3"

https://nnyagdev.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NNYADP19HeatStressReport20FINAL_1-1.pdf

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In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Margaret Quaassdorff and Daniela Gonzalez Carranza, CNY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, interview Dr. Julio Giordano, Cornell University, about the appropriate integration of automated health monitoring systems on dairy farms.

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In this episode of Cornell Convos, Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Margaret Quaassdorff and South Central New York Dairy and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, Betsy Hicks interview John Winchell, Territory Sales Rep., Alltech about opportunities and considerations for winter forages and first cutting.

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In this special episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Northwest New York Team Dairy Specialist, Dr. Kaitlyn Lutz, interviews Dr. Rob Lynch, Pro-Dairy’s Dairy Herd Health and Management Specialist, to discuss the recent outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle.

Show notes:

Cornell’s PRO-DAIRY (Biosecurity document, video presentations and other resources): https://cals.cornell.edu/pro-dairy/our-expertise/herd-health

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/mammals.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20since,reported%20on%20March%2025%2C%202024.

USDA: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/livestock

NMPF: https://www.nmpf.org/resources/hpai/

NYS Ag and Markets: https://agriculture.ny.gov/news/state-agriculture-department-monitoring-cases-hpai-farm-animals-midwestern-and-southern-states

Cornell’s Animal Health Diagnostic Center: https://www.vet.cornell.edu/animal-health-diagnostic-center/news/testing-cattle-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai

HPAI Update video in Spanish for dairy employees: https://vod.video.cornell.edu/media/HPAI%20in%20Dairy%20Cattle%20Update_Spanish_4.4.2024/1_hup0qiw6

Healthy Herds – Disease Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recording

In this episode of Cornell Cow Convos, Lindsay Ferlito, CCE North Country Regional Ag Team Dairy Specialist, and Besty Hicks, CCE South Central New York Dairy and Field Crops Team Dairy Specialist, interview Dr. Michael Capel (Perry Veterinary Clinic) and Dr. Tracy Potter (independent herd consultant). They discuss a recent project they collaborated on with the NYFVI and funding from the USDA, focusing on what healthy herds look like in NYS. The project looked at disease diagnosis criteria, treatment protocols, and record keeping for calf scours and diarrhea, and cow mastitis and metritis.

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